The International Hospital Federation (IHF) has announced the finalists in all 8 categories of the IHF Awards 2025.
IHF Awards shortlists 81 finalists
In 2025, the IHF Awards programme received more than 700 entries from hospitals and healthcare organizations from 38 countries and territories. With an eighth category added to the line-up for entries this year, 81 finalists were shortlisted to contest the following Awards:
- Dr Kwang Tae Kim Grand Hospital Award – recognizing hospitals that excelled in the five dimensions of healthcare delivery: quality and safety, patient experience, cost efficiency, workforce wellbeing, and health equity and access.
- Dr Prathap C Reddy Excellence Award for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety – honouring hospitals for their innovative and exemplary projects or programmes in enhancing clinical quality and patient safety.
- American Hospital Association Excellence Award for Healthcare Workers’ Wellbeing – recognizing excellence or outstanding achievements in ensuring the wellbeing and sustainability of healthcare workers.
- Mastercard Award for Hospital Operational Excellence – acknowledging notable and measurable success in operational outcomes and efficiencies through projects, programmes, or services.
- American College of Healthcare Executives Excellence Award for Leadership and Management – honouring excellence or outstanding leadership and management in hospitals or healthcare organizations.
- Ashikaga-Nikken Excellence Award for Low-Carbon Healthcare – recognizing impactful approaches to promoting sustainable healthcare, reducing carbon emissions, enhancing environmental responsibility, and contributing positively to the wellbeing of patients, staff and community.
- Seddiqi Holding Excellence Award for Social and Environmental Responsibility – acknowledging excellence or outstanding achievements in advancing corporate social responsibility.
- Geneva Sustainability Centre Excellence Award for Hospital Sustainability Acceleration – a new Award for 2025 – distinguishing hospitals that demonstrate exemplary improvements in sustainability strategies, actions, and reporting using insights and guidance from the Sustainability Accelerator Tool (SAT).
From more than 700 entries this year, a total of 81 finalists have been shortlisted for the 8 contested IHF Awards. In each category, winners of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, as well as honourable mentions, will be selected from the finalists.
Read the full list of finalists for the IHF Awards 2025 here.
Dr Lawrence Lai, Chair of the IHF Awards Committee, expressed his gratitude and appreciation for the calibre of entries in the IHF Awards 2025 programme:
“The world’s health systems, and their leaders, face mounting pressures – including workforce shortages, financial constraints, climate resilience, and digital transformation – which they must tackle alongside the daunting challenges and need to continually improve clinical quality and patient safety. Across every category in this year’s IHF Awards, we’ve seen entries that excelled and succeeded not only in responding to today’s urgent challenges but also actively reshaping the future of hospital leadership and healthcare services. The shortlisted finalists in particular are setting new milestones and standards, inspiring us all to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in delivering optimal care to better serve our patients and communities.
On behalf of the Awards Committee, I wish to express our heartfelt thanks to each and every hospital and healthcare organization for submitting their entries to compete for the Awards this year, to all the sponsors for supporting and making the Awards possible, and to each member of the Awards Committee for their unfailing commitment to meticulously select this year’s very worthy IHF Awards finalists from amongst the many excellent entries.”
The shortlisted projects and programme in each category exemplify the innovation, good practice, and service improvement transforming the healthcare sector in IHF Member organizations across the globe. The IHF Awards recognize and amplify exemplary work that improves the level, standard, quality, operational efficiency and sustainability of healthcare service delivery. This annual Awards showcasing excellence in hospital leadership and management is one of the core programmes by which the IHF fulfils its commitment to promoting knowledge sharing and exchange for its members and the global healthcare community.
The judging process involved an extensive review by members of the Awards Committee, comprising 61 healthcare leaders and senior executives from around the world. The scoring for the 7 Excellence Awards is based on five criteria: originality and innovation; intended impact; adaptability and scalability; scientific rigour; and clarity. For the Grand Hospital Award, entries were scored based on overall success in achieving the five dimensions of healthcare delivery (health service quality, patient experience, clinical outcomes and health equity, cost efficiency, and workforce wellbeing), as well as ability to sustain their success, and achievements.
Countdown to the World Hospital Congress
The IHF Awards 2025 winners will be presented at the Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception on Wednesday 12 November at the 48th World Hospital Congress in Geneva (Switzerland), where an audience of over 300 hospital and healthcare executives from around the globe will gather to celebrate the winning achievements.
